YOKOHAMA--A 16mm film print of an extended version of Yasujiro Ozu’s 1929 silent film “A Straightforward Boy” has been found, containing about six minutes of long-lost footage. A short ...

Tadanobu Asano shows a vulnerable side of his tough-guy image while playing a dementia-afflicted father reconnecting with his ...

This year, 2023, marks 120 years since the birth and 60 since the death of Ozu Yasujirō, the renowned filmmaker from Japan’s cinema golden age. Journalist Carmen Grau Vila explores the director ...

In Tokyo Story an older couple travels to the big city to visit grown children who can’t find the time for them. Alcoholic and probably gay, looking like an American gangster in his early photos ...

In the later part of his oeuvre, the famous Japanese filmmaker Yasujirō Ozu looks at the society of post-war Japan through family stories from the lower middle class. Arte has compiled a decalogy ...

But the more appropriate touchstone for Hosoda may be Yasujirō Ozu. As dazzling as Hosoda’s films may be visually or conceptually, they’re rooted in simple and profound human stories.